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The reading of B. D. is very corrupt. But the above lines supply a clue to a very important passage left out by the other Mss. From the contents of lines 51 to 56, the general description of the thirty-two plans outlined by thirty-two technical names in lines 2 to 50 can be followed. But all the Mss., except B. D., have left out the description of the third plan called पीठ; they do not give a full description of the second plan, called पैशाच, either. This fact may induce one to recover the missing passage from B. D. and retain it in the text, but the passage in B. D. is hopelessly corrupt. In place of these line the *Mayamata* which is a summary of the *Mānasāra* reads the following—